When I first heard that Sylvester Stallone was going to be doing another Rocky film and Rambo film… I thought they were both just stupid ideas. I’ll admit that my mind has been changed on the Rock film. The story I’ve read and the trailer have me actually excited about seeing it. But I STILL think another Rambo film is just nuts.
So the good folks over at Dark Horizons have the Rambo 4 plot available for all to see. Here’s what they give us:
After ruling out the Mideast, Africa, and Korea, the actor finally hit on a solution “I called Soldier of Fortune magazine and said, ‘What is the most critical man-doing-inhumanity-to-man situation right now in the world? Where is it?” says Stallone. They came back with Burma (aka. Myanmar), the largest country geographically in mainland Southeast Asia.
Art Monterastelli (“The Hunted”) co-wrote the script with Stallone which finds Rambo living a monastic lifestyle in Bangkok and salvaging old PT boats and tanks for scrap metal. When a group of volunteers bringing supplies into Burma disappears, a relative of one of the missing missionaries begs Rambo to find them. He heads off with a team of young guns to find them.
The movie starts shooting on October 1st.
The whole question of “who will be the bad guys” is a touchy one… and this idea isn’t a bad idea. The humanitarian disaster in Burma is insane. But they have no oil… so Tony Blair and Bush don’t talk about it (ok, enough with the political commentary).
The concept for the film above isn’t half bad… but I STILL say another Rambo film is a bad idea. But like most studios, they aren’t listening to me and production is about to start. I hope I end up being wrong about this one.
